sendmail problem

[Ed Gould]

> After searching numerious hours I decided to show my weakness and to ask
> help for my following bug:
> 
> 	Cannot open /dev/console: Bad filenumber
> 
> 	biff y does not work anymore
> 
> This problem occured after shuffeling with the hostname/uucpname.

These both come from not being able to find the address of the local
machine from the hostname file.  If you're not on a network, then
what's being used is the "loopback" net where your address is
127.0.0.0

-- 
Ed Gould
{ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed